Our Most Popular Luxury Album – The Storybook
A heartfelt "thank you" for everything you have done to create the most beautiful, precious and lasting record of our wedding. It was a joy to have you share the day with us, and the album is perfect. We always knew that you are a genius with light and composition,...
Hopetoun House Wedding: Ailsa and Josh
Ahhh. The summer wedding dreams are made of... Super excited to share the glorious wedding of Ailsa and Josh at Hopetoun House. Like every wedding in the last couple of years, their planning was fraught with stressful Covid can-we-can't-we moments, compromises and...
Winner – Picture of the Year
I’m thrilled to have won Picture of the Year with one of my images- what a fantastic way to start the new year! This image of Anniek at Winton Castle has won Picture of the Year on The Wedding Community! The picture shows my bride Anniek on the morning of her...
Aikwood Tower Autumn Wedding- Nicole and Ryan
We are always so happy to head to the Scottish Borders to capture an Aikwood Tower wedding, and Nicole and Ryan's was no exception. Their early autumn wedding shared with close family was the most delightful, intimate and happy day.Nicole and Ryan were originally...
A sunny winter wedding at Cromlix Hotel
On a beautiful, golden lit November day we had the pleasure of capturing an intimate wedding at Comlix Hotel. M&T wed at Cromlix Hotel, owned by tennis ace Andy Murray, near his hometown of Dunblane. The venue is situated in beautiful countryside, with 34 acres of...
How will my wedding album cover look?
We are OBSESSED with our wedding album - it’s absolute perfection and we show everyone and look at it ourselves all the time 💕💕💕 our friends and family all agree that it has completely overshot our wildest dreams of what it would look like. 💫 Very few couples come to...
Greywalls Hotel Wedding – Eliza and Hugo
We seem to have fallen a little behind on blogging our wonderful weddings - two years behind in fact(!)... Nevertheless, I fully believe this one was worth the wait: Presenting the gorgeous wedding of Eliza and Hugo at the beautiful Greywalls hotel in Gullane. ...
Parents’ Albums
We love creating beautiful albums for our clients. Over the years we have done extensive research on album suppliers, album styles, materials, papers, printing etc. We have learned design and lay-out skills to tell the best stories; retouching, colour correction and...
Winner: Portrait Photographer of the Year 2020
In the uncertainty of lockdown, watching all the jobs I had lined up for 2020 being cancelled/ postponed one by one, there were a few nuggets of joy and positivity in the First Light office. Having entered the Scottish MPA awards, I had been looking forward to...
“Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue….”
Something Olde, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, And a Silver Sixpence in your Shoe. If you're in the middle of planning your wedding day and finding yourself with a little more planning time on your hands than usual (and a slightly longer wait till...
How I created this image, using lights and layering.
Lovely to see this picture from Clare and Ewan's wedding at The Cruin nominated for Picture of the Month on the Wedding Community Blog 😊I'd be ever so grateful if you would head over and give it a vote (it's image 10). Wondering how I managed to light the couple in...
Commercial Photography – our 2019 highlights
2019 provided a huge boost for my commercial photography, when I won Up & Coming Commercial Photographer of the Year in the national MPA (Master Photographer Association) Awards. Having done my first commercial photography job 21 years ago, in 1999, it was rather...
2019 Highlights – Edinburgh Proposal and Engagement Photography
2019 was the year my email inbox was full of emails from nervous boyfriends, asking my opinions about where, when and how to best propose to their girlfriend in Edinburgh. It was the year I got to share the moment when "girlfriend" was replaced with "fiancee" with a...
WINNER, Commercial Photographer of the Year 2019
I joined The Master Photographers' Association a year ago, an organisation that strives to support, inspire and improve photographers and their trade in the UK. As part of their services, they run an annual national photography competition. I wasn't able to attend the...
Our wedding photography highlights – 2019
How to sum up a year in a few words or pictures? Turns out that's harder than it seems. So far, it's taken me two weeks to streamline a selection of our favourite photos down from over 1000 to around 150. The only way I was able to do it was by promising myself to get...